{"title":"[Marital communication and premenstrual symptoms].","authors":"M L Marván, M L Martínez Millán","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most women have at least one premenstrual symptom. Despite the fact that these symptoms are sometimes light, they can affect the social environment. The relationship between premenstrual symptoms and marital communication was analysed in this study. 35 mexican couples were studies. Women's ages ranged from 35 to 40 and men's ages from 32 to 51. The conyugal time together fluctuated from 5 to 19 years. All women's cycles were regular. Women were given a menstrual symptoms questionnaire during two consecutive cycles. Furthermore, both spouses were given a marital communications questionnaire, twice in each woman's menstrual cycles: during premenstrual and postmenstrual phases. It was observed that marital communication decreased during the premenstrual period, compared to the postmenstrual phase. Moreover, it was found that the more severe the symptoms were the less marital communication was reported by women. Such co-relations were also given among men, at less degree, though. In brief, even women without being diagnosed for premenstrual syndrome have premenstrual symptoms apparently imperceptible which affect some aspects of their every day life such as marital communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"41 1","pages":"24-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18663393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C Recart, J P Heimann, M Larraguibel, P Sius, A Gómez
{"title":"[Children of parents with mood disorders].","authors":"C Recart, J P Heimann, M Larraguibel, P Sius, A Gómez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, child and adolescent psychiatry has recognized a high prevalence rate of mental disorders in affective disorders' offsprings. These can vary in their nature and severity. What is important is to bare in mind this risk condition. Many times prevention is possible, or early treatment is available. In an investigation that is actually being carried out in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Chile, that searches for understanding factors that severely deviate child and adolescent development, we found it is not unusual for the parents of the proband group to have affective disorders. In order to illustrate the discussion we describe three clinical histories.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"41 1","pages":"40-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18663396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G Rojas Castillo, S Camposano Waterkotte, J Corail Bravo, F Lolas Stepke
{"title":"[Detection of psychiatric disorders in the elderly].","authors":"G Rojas Castillo, S Camposano Waterkotte, J Corail Bravo, F Lolas Stepke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The goal of this paper was to study the usefulness of standardised tests in elderly and assess the relationship among sociodemographic factors, neuropsychological indicators and psychiatric diagnosis, 40 subjects (31 women and 9 men, mean age 71.5 years, sd 6.16) who attended a primary care clinic in Santiago were interviewed using a sociodemographic interview, the Sarason's social support questionnaire, the mini mental state examination, the Goldberg health questionnaire, the Beck's inventory for measuring depression, the Wechsler adult intelligence scale and the Wechsler memory scale. Event related potentials were evoked in response to an auditory \"Odd Ball\" paradigm. A psychiatric interview, according ICD10 criteria gave 67.5% of psychiatric disorders. Anova analysis considering the psychiatric diagnostic groups showed significant differences for MMSE, GHQ12, BI, and WAIS. It is concluded that there is a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders and that standardised tests could be used for their detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"41 1","pages":"45-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18663397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Locus coeruleus: implications for psychiatry].","authors":"G P Orellana Vidal","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The role of the LC in psychiatric disorders has been studied over the last several years employing a variety of methods. Studies have suggested a number of neurophysiological, neuropharmacological and behavioral effects of this central noradrenergic nucleus that might be a part of the neural substrate for the normal emotions. The LC is the largest of the NA nuclei, the source of over 70% of the NA transmitter in the brain, and principal source of innervation of brain regions likely to be involved in complex behaviors. This nucleus has implications to vigilance as well as global orientation of behavior towards imperative, environmental sensory stimuli. Yet, more recent information regarding the visceral regulation of LC provides new biological aspects on behavior and mental functions which allow a more integrated view of the role of NA in the overall functioning of the individual. This review summarizes these findings and outlines several implications for psychiatry.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"41 1","pages":"57-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18663399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Humoral regulation of sleep].","authors":"J H Tramezzani","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"41 1","pages":"52-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18663398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Repetition and fear of dying].","authors":"B D Lerner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper a revision is made of the qualifications of Repetition (R) in Freuds work, i.e. its being at the service of the Pleasure Principle and, beyond it, the binding of free energy due to trauma. Freud intends to explain with this last concept the \"fort-da\" and the traumatic dreams (obsessively reiterated self-reproaches may be added to them). The main thesis of this work is that R. is not only a defense against the recollection of the ominous past (as in the metaphorical deaths of abandonment and desertion) but also a way of maintaining life and identify fighting against the inescapable omninous future (known but yet experienced), i.e. our own death. Some forms of R. like habits, identificatory behaviors and sometimes even magic, are geared to serve the life instinct. A literary illustration shows this desperate fight.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"41 1","pages":"29-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18663394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Thanatotherapeutics].","authors":"F Lolas Stepke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thanatotherapeutics, as \"ars bene moriendi\", belongs to those services that modern medicine should restore and value most. Its exercise demands examining the plurality and heterogeneity of the discourses about death: the biological, the anthropological, the sociological and the theological, among others. Each one of them has its own context of validity and a proper scope. The association between aging and dying permits a discussion of the disablement process and of social death, as paradigms for the most general features of dying. As a concrete and individual process, death occurs nowadays in hospitals and hospices, this fact being essential for examining it in terms of the actors and agents present in this institutional setting. Some principles are derived and discussed, among them three dimensions deemed relevant for appraising thanatotherapeutic work: what is proper according to art, what is good for the individuals concerned and what is just for the society to which they belong.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 4","pages":"282-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18492181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[ACTA: a name, three passions, forty years].","authors":"R D Alarcón","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 4","pages":"271-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18492292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Combined therapy with tricyclic and MAOI antidepressants in the treatment of resistant major depression].","authors":"T A Rosan, H L Mesones, F Brengio","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper shows the results of associating tricyclic and MAOI antidepressants in the treatment of resistant major depression. Forty five patients from private practice with diagnosis of major depression according to DSM III R criteria, with negative response to separate tricyclic or MAOI treatment, were given both types associated. They improved without dangerous side effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 4","pages":"314-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18492185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C F González Forteza, A Jiménez Tapia, C Gómez Castro, S Berenzon Gorn, J Mora Ríos
{"title":"[The psychological meaning of the female friend among Mexican adolescents: a gender comparison].","authors":"C F González Forteza, A Jiménez Tapia, C Gómez Castro, S Berenzon Gorn, J Mora Ríos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study constitutes a continuation of a series of approximation to the knowledge of an adolescent stage. The purpose of this paper is to explore the way in that the females and males adolescents conceptualize a \"female friend\". With this in mind, we analyzed the information with the semantic network technique in 160 adolescents: 80 females and 80 males divided in two groups of analysis: 8th and 12th school years in private schools from Mexico City. The results permit to observe some differences in their conceptualizations by gender and educative level; but also we observed similarities in the way of to conceptualize a \"female friend\". Perhaps these findings derived from a cultural tradition that influence the social interactions and by an evolutive stage: the adolescence, when the establishment of the psychosocial identity is an important need and demand.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 4","pages":"308-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18492184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}